I haven't blogged in a while, but not because Nathan isn't being cute!
He is doing so many new things. I mentioned to Jen recently that he has turned into a little tape recorder, repeating whatever we ask him to say. There are very few sounds he can't repeat now.
But there are other things. He turns pages well, even in magazines. He can be very gentle. I think he is unusually aware of his body. He walks backwards to be silly. He started climbing into and out of the molded toybox he got for Christmas immediately. He goes up and down the stairs pretty securely, and is working on climbing onto the couch himself.
Last week we went for a walk, with him walking along with me. The temperature was in the 40s, and the sidewalk was clear, but there are still piles of snow, especially at the ends of driveways. He took his favorite kitchen spatula with him when we walked, and used it to dig into the snow piles. He loved it. He touched the snow with his fingers when it was stuck on the spatula. Then he started tossing snow into the air, and stepping on it when it plopped onto the sidewalk. One time he tossed it in the wrong direction, and it came down onto him, onto his face and neck, and into the neck of his coat. He squealed, but was laughing!
His language skills are improving daily. Some of that has really been fun. "Ba" meant ball, bat, banana and bus for quite a while. He has been saying "Nana" for months, but every time I tried to get him to say "banana," it would just be "ba." I was determined to get him to say the whole word, so I said, "Say banana."
Nathan said "ba."
I tried again. "No, say banana."
After several rounds of this, he became exasperated with me. Finally, he pointed to the banana, and said, "Ba!" Then he pointed at me, and said, "Nana!"
We still haven't gotten him to say the word banana.
